Saturday, September 14, 2013

Butcher's Corner - 3.

Councilmember
Meyering: Made it clear that there is no reason we ‘have’ to annex the
property. If it is left under the County, it likely won’t be built.

Councilmember
Whittum: Made it clear that the cost to annex after January 1st is ~$5k-$10k if
the county even charges the City of Sunnyvale anything. He later made the
motion to ask for a study session to specifically consider down-zoning to R2.

Councilmember
Griffith: Made it clear that once annexed, things do change as a pre-zoned
property becomes zoned and that we would want to make our changes prior to
annexation.

Mayor
Spitaleri: Was reluctant to study down-zoning to R2 until the process with the
developer/neighbor meetings occurred.

Councilmember
Moylan: Thought we should annex and then deal with trying to down-zoning (even
though it was made clear that this would be far more difficult to achieve.)

Councilmember
Martin-Milius: Was reluctant to consider down-zoning to R2 until the process
with the developer/neighbor meetings occurred.

Councilmember
Davis: Made it clear that R3, the preliminary plans and the ECPP have
differences the council would have to rectify. Thought we should annex and then
deal with trying to down-zone (even though it was made clear that this would be
far more difficult to achieve.)

In the
end, the vote was 3 to 4 to study down-zoning to R2 at this time. The motion
failed.